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Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE (3 July 1923 - 2 November 2000), best-known as Sue Ryder, was a British peeress who worked with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and afterwards led many charitable organizations, notably the Sue Ryder charity named after her. After the war was over, Ryder volunteered to do relief work in Poland and expended to other charitable work as well. The Queen Mother opened the Sue Ryder Foundation (later Sue Ryder Care) at Cavendish, Suffolk in 1979. Ryder also continued to speak for Poland and when the communist rule there collapsed, she arranged lorries of medical and food aid. In 1989 Ryder made an appeal through The Daily Telegraph to obtain more funding and collected £40,000.  |
